why the daily mail's going down the drain

[Storm Fox]

Human cancer

With the fires and disruption; my guess is they will just ignore it tomorrow.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

ignorant shithole rag

 

[stavros]

What? Crowbarring the undefined term "woke" into today's front page. For some context, that's £1m out of a total NHS annual budget of £174b.



The Mail has a similar group for its own staff, for those who feel left out because they haven't yet been called a cunt by Dacre.

 

[BristolEcho]

What are the group's?

 

[stavros]

What are the group's?

According to the DM they're support groups for such meaningless issues as sexuality and racism.

 

[T & P]

How very dare the BBC call a cunt a cunt? Front page outrage-worthy stuff, apparently

 

[stavros]

How very dare the BBC call a cunt a cunt? Front page outrage-worthy stuff, apparently

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Yes, I chuckle for a good while when I saw that this morning, as I'm sure did Paul "vagina monologues" Dacre.

 

[Tanya1982]

For whatever random reason, looked at their website this morning. An article states that Russia continues to 'tease' us with nuclear war. I've never heard it referred to quite like that before. Comments seem very pro Putin on the whole. One, someone very angry in Worthing, calls Zelensky a 'cycle path'.

 

[stavros]

Comments seem very pro Putin on the whole.

Dacre used to be nicknamed "Mugabe", but he's outlasted him, and there are character similarities between him and Putin.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yes, I chuckle for a good while when I saw that this morning, as I'm sure did Paul "vagina monologues" Dacre.

Too many examples, but this one's good:

Swear it again
Good cunt, bad cunt

If Paul Dacre does end up getting the job at Ofcom, you can be sure that one of his first orders of business will be downgrading the C-word from 'Most Offensive' to 'Punctuation'.

Dacre's potty mouth is legendary on Fleet Street, but there's a particularly good anecdote about it in the Mail Men biography which sees Dacre picking up the phone to talk to one of his journalists, Jimmy Grylls, but actually ending up on the line with Tory MP Michael Grylls.

Immediately, Dacre launches into one of his famous tirades, barking orders liberally peppered with Fs and Cs – until a colleague, horrified, points out that he isn't speaking to one of his lackeys, but a member of Parliament.

Dacre realises an apology will be in order. So, barely missing a beat, the next words out of his mouth? "Oh, I'm a cunt! I really am a fucking cunt! What a stupid fucking cunt I am!"

Popbitch 4/11/21

 

[stavros]

Too many examples, but this one's good:



Popbitch 4/11/21

Whilst Alastair Campbell is most commonly cited, and Gordon Brown has a famously furious temper too, I'm pretty sure Dacre formed part of the inspiration for Malcolm Tucker.

 

[Pickman's model]

am i the only person to see a swastika in this?

Why you NEED to do the Daily Mail's crossword, according to science

A new Columbia University study recruited more than 100 people aged 55 to 95, who had mild cognitive impairment but not dementia, and asked half to do brain-training.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Spoiler

 

[brogdale]

am i the only person to see a swastika in this?

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Why you NEED to do the Daily Mail's crossword, according to science

A new Columbia University study recruited more than 100 people aged 55 to 95, who had mild cognitive impairment but not dementia, and asked half to do brain-training.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Spoiler

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hurrah for the black squares!

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[stavros]

Last week they reverted to implying that Ed Miliband is a communist, just as they did 2010-15, because, well, isn't it obvious?

 

[Pickman's model]

Last week they reverted to implying that Ed Miliband is a communist, just as they did 2010-15, because, well, isn't it obvious?

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He is too uncharismatic to be a communist

 

[elbows]

Given the most famous picture used against him Id say he's more like a nom-nom-nomunist.

 

[two sheds]

This will hopefully be fun

Daily Mail seeks to delay court allegations of high-profile breaches of privacy

Lawyers for group including Prince Harry, Doreen Lawrence and Elton John filed claims two months ago

www.theguardian.com

Among the allegations against Associated Newspaper made by lawyers acting for the claimants were:

• the hiring of private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside people’s cars and homes;
• the commissioning of individuals to surreptitiously listen in to, and record, people’s live, private telephone calls while they were taking place;
• the payment of police officials, with allegedly corrupt links to private investigators, for sensitive inside information;
• the impersonation of individuals to obtain medical information from private hospitals, clinics, and treatment centres by deception;
• the accessing of bank accounts, credit histories and financial transactions through illicit means and manipulation.

strangely though

... two months later, the paperwork setting out the allegations against the Daily Mail and its sister titles is still not public. Sources with knowledge of the case said this followed a legal intervention by Associated Newspapers which has delayed formal acknowledgment – and therefore publication – of the claims.

This is despite the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday’s long record of campaigning against “secret justice” and for transparency in the court system. Spokespeople for the Daily Mail’s parent company did not respond to multiple requests for comment asking why the company had yet to acknowledge the claims.

 

[stavros]

Doreen Lawrence is an interesting one, as the DM likes to style itself, not inaccurately, as the champion of the campaign for justice for her son. I'm not an avid enough reader of this particular journal to know if she's previously done them wrong.

 

[two sheds]

This is sad

Daily Mail announces redundancy plans as print readership declines

Editor Ted Verity said newspaper, sister title Mail on Sunday and MailOnline would be brought ‘much closer together’

www.theguardian.com

 

[stavros]

Mail invokes the Human Rights Act.

 

[marty21]

Mail invokes the Human Rights Act.

That is the funniest thing I've read today

 

[Fuzzy]

quite amusing that Prince Harry and a load of slebs turned up to court today. made much more of the case by doing so. particularly on a day when it sounded like a fairly dull day of legal argument which wouldn't have made the news if they hadn't attended.

 

[GarveyLives]

Doreen Lawrence is an interesting one, as the DM likes to style itself, not inaccurately, as the champion of the campaign for justice for her son. I'm not an avid enough reader of this particular journal to know if she's previously done them wrong.

You can decide for yourself here:

Stephen Lawrence murder `exploited´ by Daily Mail for profit, says mother

 

[T & P]

Suddenly the Lords are bad because they are unelected. I salute this epiphany by the Mail, and look forward to their calling for the Monarchy to be abolished forthwith

 

[stavros]

It's a good job the DM's proprietor doesn't sit, unelected, in the House of Lords, on account of what his great-grandfather did 104 years ago, isn't it?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Suddenly the Lords are bad because they are unelected. I salute this epiphany by the Mail, and look forward to their calling for the Monarchy to be abolished forthwith

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[T & P]

I wish they would make their mind up. I’m sure I remember the very same newspaper denouncing a mere three years ago dozens of democratically elected MPs as ‘enemies of the people’ for daring to vote for a measure contrary to its views. But surely I’m remembering it wrong.

 

[krtek a houby]

Suddenly the Lords are bad because they are unelected. I salute this epiphany by the Mail, and look forward to their calling for the Monarchy to be abolished forthwith

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And sent to Rwanda.

The monarchy and the Mail.

 

[stavros]

Let's remember too that Paul Dacre desperately wants to be Lord Cunt of Fleet Street.